CLE Expo

Save the Date - October 5 - 6, 2015 - San Diego, CA

Thank you for joining MCCA in Los Angeles on March 12-13, 2014 at the Westin Bonaventure for the 2014 CLE Expo, a conference experience unlike any other offered to the profession. This engaging conference has featured the brightest legal minds discussing the hottest legal topics of the day.

One of MCCA’s signature programs is the annual CLE Expo, a premier two-day educational conference that provides unsurpassed networking opportunities and advanced education seminars focused on leading topics of interest to the corporate legal community.

2014 Conference Course Materials

To view the course materials for this year's CLE Expo please click the download link beside a session title below to obtain the materials available for that session.

MCCA Mobile App

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Latest News

Hot Jobs - March 2015Summary: MCCA to sends out an email blast of Hot Job announcements to our network on the last Friday of every month. Check out the latest job postings.

MCCA Announces Annual Employer of Choice Award Honorees Summary: MCCA announced today the five recipients of the 2015 Employer of Choice Awards, who will be honored during the 2015 Diversity Gala on June 30th at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

Lawyers of Color's Annual Power ListSummary: MCCA President and CEO Joseph K. West was named to the Lawyers of Color’s Annual Power List. The Annual Power List highlights the nation’s most influential minority attorneys and non-minority diversity advocates

Fast Facts

Americans aged 25-34 have the second highest rate of bankruptcy (just after those aged 35 to 44), indicating that Gen-Xers were more likely to file for bankruptcy than were young baby boomers at the same age. Source: "Generation Broke: The Growth of Debt among Young Americans."

The average young-adult household spends almost one quarter of every dollar earned on debt payments. Source: "Generation Broke: The Growth of Debt among Young Americans."

The annual unemployment rate in 2012 for Management, Professionals, and Related Occupations was 4.1%. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

Nearly two-thirds of the 5.4 million legal immigrants from Mexico who are eligible to become citizens of the US have not yet taken that step. Their naturalization rate-36%-is only half that of legal immigrants from all other countries combined. Source: Pew Research Center

The overall U.S. birth rate declined 8% from 2007 to 2010. The birth rate for U.S.-born women decreased 6% during these years, but the birth rate for foreign-born women plunged 14%-more than it had declined over the entire 1990-2007 period.1 The birth rate for Mexican immigrant women fell even more, by 23%. Source: Pew Research Center

Three-quarters of retirees said they worked longer than they would have otherwise to maintain access to their employer healthcare plan. The Affordable Care Act does include provisions aimed at reining in prices by limiting the amount insurers can charge older Americans to 3 times what they charge younger subscribers. Source: The Washington Post

Only four in ten third-graders in the District of Columbia can read proficiently, and only about four out of ten young adults in the District have a full-time job. Source: Raise D.C.

In 1779, before his time as president, Thomas Jefferson proposed a law to castrate gay men and to destroy the nose cartilage of gay women. Source: Washington Lawyer

Pennsylvania was the first state to repeal the death penalty for sodomy in 1786. Source: Washington Lawyer

In 1924 the Society for Human Rights in Chicago became the country's first gay rights organization. Other organizations such as the Mattachine Society and the daughters of Bilitis, were formed decades later. Source: Washington Lawyer

In 1962 Illinois became the first state to decriminalize homosexual acts done in private between consenting adults. Source: Washington Lawyer

The nationalities with the highest rates of nationalization in the US - about75% - are Vietnamese, Russian, Filipino, Korean, Laotian, and Cuban. Source: The Pew Research Center

To become a citizen of the US, a legal permanent resident must be at least 18 years; have lived in the US continuously for 5 years; be able to speak, read, write, and understand basic English; pass a background check; demonstrate knowledge of US history and government; swear allegiance to the US; and pay the $680 application fee. Source: The Washington Post

The Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Conn., metropolitan area, near New York City, had the highest percentage (17.9%) of households with at least $191,469 in income. At the other end of the spectrum are two metro areas named Danville -- in Virginia and Illinois -- each with 1.1% of households having such high income. Source: U.S. Census Bureau

National Women's History Month dates back to March 8, 1857, when women in NYC factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women's Day was first observed in 1909, but it wasn't until 1981 that Congress established National Women's History Week, celebrated the 2nd week of March. In 1987, the week was expanded to a month. Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Americans aged 25-34 have the second highest rate of bankruptcy (just after those aged 35 to 44), indicating that Gen-Xers were more likely to file for bankruptcy than were young baby boomers at the same age. Source: "Generation Broke: The Growth of Debt among Young Americans."

The average young-adult household spends almost one quarter of every dollar earned on debt payments. Source: "Generation Broke: The Growth of Debt among Young Americans."

The annual unemployment rate in 2012 for Management, Professionals, and Related Occupations was 4.1%. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics